As a resident of Maryland, Delaware, Washington DC, or Pennsylvania, you can choose your electric supplier.  Clean Currents is the region’s leading, independent green energy company providing electricity sourced from clean wind power.  The electricity that powers your house will still be delivered through the grid, so there is no installation of equipment and no change to the dependability of service at your home.  

By choosing Clean Currents you are actively helping to promote further renewable energy development in the United States.  Your wallet will thank you too because Clean Currents electric rates are competitive with rates through your local utility. Learn How it Works

Clean Currents Certified as a B Corporation

Green Energy Firm Becomes First in Montgomery County and Fourth in State of Maryland to Achieve Certification

Clean Currents LLC., a leading green energy company in the Mid-Atlantic, today announced it has achieved certification as a B-Corporation, a socially responsible business designation.  This achievement makes Clean Currents only the fourth company in Maryland to attain this classification and the first in Montgomery County.

“At Clean Currents, we pride ourselves in being ahead of the curve in showing what it means to be a truly sustainable business,” said Gary Skulnik, Co-Founder of Clean Currents.  “Other companies talk about being sustainable, but getting certified as a B-Corporation, which includes independent third party verification, proves that we really walk the sustainable walk.”

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SolarCity Expands to the East Coast, Introduces Maryland’s First Solar Lease

Nation’s largest solar service provider acquires Clean Currents Solar, will extend solar leasing and energy efficiency services to Maryland and Washington D.C.

SolarCity®, already the largest solar service provider in the U.S. with 1,000 employees and more than 10,000 projects completed or underway, is expanding its operations to the East Coast. The company has acquired Clean Currents Solar, the solar installation division of leading Mid-Atlantic based independent green energy company Clean Currents LLC, and will serve Maryland and the District of Columbia from its new operations center in Silver Spring.

“Clean Currents has built a strong, local installation team that we will grow to bring zero-down solar leasing and a range of other clean power and energy efficiency options to Maryland and Washington D.C.,” said Lyndon Rive, SolarCity’s CEO. “This partnership should significantly increase solar and energy efficiency adoption in the Mid-Atlantic region.”

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How can I switch my home to wind power?

Maryland, Washington DC, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are de-regulated energy states. This means that as a resident of one of these states you can choose your electric supplier. Clean Currents allows you to go carbon-neutral at home. We do this by bundling national wind power produced by wind farms situated across the country with your home’s electricity use. This bundled product is delivered through the Mid-Atlantic grid (also known as the PJM grid) and supplied by Washington Gas Energy Services (WGES). By choosing wind power for your home through Clean Currents you are helping to decrease your carbon footprint by offsetting the emissions from your electricity use with clean renewable wind power.

If I switch to Clean Currents, does my electric utility no longer serve me?

Your local utility will always be your electric distributor, regardless of which company you choose as your electric supplier. Even if you switch to Clean Currents, your local utility will continue to service your home as your electric distributor.

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How Does it Work?

Residents and businesses in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Pennsylvania can choose their electric supplier (you are not obligated to stay with your utility for electric supply).  This is because of electricity deregulation.

Electricity deregulation can be best described through a metaphor.  Consider our national electric grid as a big pot of soup.  There are multiple ingredients that go into a soup – but once blended it can be difficult (if not impossible) to tell each ingredient apart from the others.

In the case of our national electric grid, different sources of electricity would be the different ingredients for the soup – carbon fuels like coal and natural gas, hydro power, nuclear, and renewable energy like wind power and solar power.  At the moment, the vast majority of our national electric grid is powered by carbon fuels.  Once an electron is placed onto the grid, it becomes essentially impossible to trace where it came from (electricity is electricity).  However, the source of where that electron was produced is very important!  (Click here to learn about electricity deregulation)

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Clean Currents Wind Power allows residents of Maryland, Washington DC, Delaware, and Pennsylvania to go carbon-neutral.  Clean Currents bundles standard electricity from the Mid-Atlantic grid with Renewable Energy in the form of national renewable energy credits produced by domestic wind farms.  This bundled product is supplied through the grid by Washington Gas Energy Services.  There is NO installation of equipment required and NO change to the reliability of power to your home.

* Clean Currents wind power rates are currently LOWER than avg regional utility rates

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What is the Green Neighborhood Challenge?

As a resident of Maryland, DC, or Pennsylvania you can choose your electric supplier.  Clean Currents is the Mid-Atlantic’s leading green energy supplier.  With the Green Neighborhood Challenge you can also have your community, school, or house of worship powered by clean wind energy!  In addition to helping your community, school, or house of worship save money on their electric bills, we are also providing an extra incentive: Clean Currents will donate $10 per household sign-up to your registered community for use towards a “green project”.  Start a community garden, plant trees along sidewalks or medians, replace common-area light bulbs with fluorescents, etc.  The more people who sign-up for wind power and refer your community, the more resources you will have to complete your green project. 
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Greener in Greenbelt

Choose Green Power, Save Money and Support Greenbelt

Clean Currents is a licensed clean energy broker/aggregator offering special fixed price contracts for wind power at rates lower than PEPCO’s standard rates.* Even better mention “Greener in Greenbelt” when you sign up and Clean Currents will donate $15 to the Greenbelt Community Foundation.

TO SIGN UP:

It’s easy!

When you are ready, click on the “ENROLL” button at the bottom of this page. Remember, you will need your BGE or Pepco account number to proceed.

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Nearly 40% of the carbon emissions are generated from electricity production.  The more clean renewable energy from sources like wind power or solar, the less power generated from fossil fuels like coal or natural gas.

Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) represent the environmental attributes from 1000 kilowatt hours of clean energy!

Resident can purchase RECs directly (separate from their utility) to offset their electricity or more.

Who purchases RECs?

• Can’t sign up for (Chesapeake Green) 
• Live in an apartment or school dormatory and not responsible for paying a bill
• Want to offset more than just your electricity’s carbon footprint.

What is the Green Neighborhood Effect?

It’s a Community Powered by Clean Energy!  As a resident of Maryland or DC, you can choose to have your business or home powered by clean wind energy.  With the Green Neighborhood Effect you can also have your community, school, or house of worship powered by clean wind energy!  In addition to helping your community, school, or house of worship save money on their electricity bills, we are also providing an extra incentive: Clean Currents will donate $10 per household sign-up to your registered community for use towards a “green project”.  Start a community garden, plant trees along sidewalks or medians, replace common-area light bulbs with fluorescents, etc.  The more people who sign-up for wind power and refer your community, the more resources you will have to complete your green project.  All we ask is that all funds are used for a community greening project and that you complete it by summer 2010.
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Clean Currents testifed at the DC Public Service Commission (DC PSC) hearing on deceptive marketing and sales practices by alternative energy suppliers.

Complaints about deceptive marketing practices by alternative energy suppliers have skyrocketed over the past few years, prompting a hearing. Many of our customers have faced issues with other alternative energy suppliers, ranging from being enrolled without consent to being unable to cancel their contract. We find these practices unacceptable and are calling on the Public Service Commission to do something about it.

We are asking the DC Public Service Commission to institute higher standards for transparency and accountability to ensure consumer protection among alternative energy suppliers operating in the District of Columbia.

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Clean Currents Solar designs and installs small and large scale solar photovoltaic (PV), solar thermal and small wind power systems.  The company is a leading solar power installer in the Mid Atlantic region, including Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and Washington DC.

Click here to request a free site evaluation.

Our experienced crews have installed hundreds of installs ranging from small residential to large commerical systems.  Our team is led by  a certified solar installer along with a licensed engineer.  The result is a detailed site analysis and understanding on how best to complete the work required, whatever the size.  We provide a turn key approach to solar power system installations. 

Human activities, especially the burning of carbon fuels, have warmed the earth by dramatically increasing the concentrations of heat-trapping or greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO²), in the earth’s atmosphere. The presence of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere is natural and is what makes our planet habitable by regulating temperature extremes. But as humans pump more of these gases into the atmosphere, our world’s delicate and complex climate system is being increasingly stressed.

The impacts of climate change can already be observed in many places, from rising sea levels to melting snow and ice, to changing weather patterns and increasingly violent storm systems. These effects are already affecting ecosystems, freshwater supplies, human health, agriculture yields, and physical property.

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Clean Currents Wind Power allows residents of the Mid-Atlantic to go carbon-neutral.  Clean Currents bundles standard electricity from the Mid-Atlantic grid with Renewable Energy produced by wind turbine farms in the United States.  This bundled product is supplied by Washington Gas Energy Services.  There is no installation of equipment required and no change to the reliability of power to your home.  YOU CAN ALSO SAVE MONEY!  Clean Currents wind power rates are LOWER than avg Pepco, BGE, and Allegheny rates.

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“We purchase 100% wind power RECs for our entire property portfolio of over 3 million square feet including office, apartment, retail and restaurant space. It’s part of our corporate philosophy to develop and maintain sustainable, healthy buildings.”
Marnie Abramson
The Tower Companies

Buildings powered by Clean Currents are choosing clean, sustainable power that is good for the environment, good for future generations, and can help position them to qualify for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification.

Clean Currents and LEED Certification –
A Simple Way to Get Two LEED Points.

LEED grants credits for clean energy purchasing. A building can earn one LEED point by purchasing renewable energy to meet at least 50% of its needs in a contract of at least two years. A building can earn an additional LEED point by substantially exceeding the minimum energy purchase level. A 100% clean energy purchase can earn two LEED points.

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Go Green, Go Smart… Save $ While you Help Save the Environment!

• Reduce your organization’s CO2 emissions, help combat global warming, and clear the air.
• Increase investor and analyst confidence in your sustainability practices, and improve your environmental performance record.
• Foster employee and customer loyalty through community action.
• Strengthen your brand’s association with a clean environment and a healthy lifestyle
  • Add Clean Currents logos to your marketing materials.
  • Receive certificate and banners to display at your business
  • Press releases or other media to get the word out
  • Introduction to clean energy homeowners through Clean Currents newsletters and sponsored events

How does Clean Currents work?

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